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A Silver Mt Zion
Grillen, Colmar
7 avril 2007

Guests : Julie Doiron + François Virot

Un concert Hier Colmar (http://hiero.fr)

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Reviewer: dcom - - June 22, 2011
Subject: Definitely worth checking out.
Disclaimer:
Firstly, this would probably be 5 stars but it cuts out at the end of "one million died to make this sound." which may or may not have been the last song they played. This is really unfortunate because it is otherwise a great recording, but at the same time I can't complain too much since the 1 hour and 20 minutes that ARE there sounds great.

Sound Quality:
Overall it's really good! This sounds very much like a soundboard recording. Zero crowd noise, very good stereo isolation. It maybe could have been slightly mastered with a pinch of compression as the quiets can be a bit too quiet even with headphones on and my volume all the way up. The mixing seems to improve as the show goes on. Violins seem to be clipping a little bit sometimes.

Performance / Highlights:
Good performances all around (as usual), a very energetic end to mountains made of steam. Efrim introduces most songs with a short explanation, which was kinda nice. There is a primordial version of "I built myself a metal bird / I fed my metal bird the wings of other metal birds" which is used as an intro/lead-in to "one million died to make this sound." The melodies are different and it is a neat snapshot of the state of the song at the time.